“What Happiness Have Your Goloshes Brought to men?”——How to Read The Goloshes of Fortune by Andersen;

Depicting Real Life with Traditional Method——On Lucky Jim Written by Kingsley Amis;

Lucky Jim, the masterpiece of Kingsley Amis, tells the story of a young man who manages to get the table turned at the last minute and thus wins both a good job and a beautiful woman.

This thesis tries to analyze how the Romantic and Realistic modes of characterization are constructed in the three representative postwar British academic novels --- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, Eating People Is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury, and Small World by David Lodge --- from the perspective of Northrop Frye’s theory of character.